Characters / Horseland

The characters of Horseland.

Main Characters

Humans

As a whole

• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Zoey and Chloe are the Beauties, Sarah, Alma and Will are the Brains, and Molly, Bailey and Nani are the Brawns.
• Color-Coded Characters:
  • Sarah - Red
  • Molly - Pink
  • Alma - Green
  • Bailey - Navy blue
  • Zoey - Cyan
  • Chloe - Lavender
  • Will - Black
  • Nani - Yellow
• Five-Token Band:
  • Sarah - Blonde
  • Molly - African American
  • Alma - Hispanic
  • Bailey - Brunette
  • Zoey - Redhead
  • Chloe - Irish American
  • Will - Also blonde
  • Nani - Native American
• Nice Mean And In Between:
  • Nice: Sarah and Molly. The former is The Hero who's rich but prefers friends over wealth, while the latter is spunky and laid-back.
  • Mean: Zoey and Chloe. Sure they're two spoiled and selfish sisters who always want things done their way, but deep down, they're actually on good terms with the others.
  • In-Between: Alma and Bailey. Both of them are caring, but have a little more assertiveness.
• True Companions: All of them do care and respect each other. However, Molly, Alma and Bailey (and later Nani in Season 3) stay more loyal to Sarah than Zoey and Chloe do.
• With Friends Like These...: They're generally friendly and kind, but all of them have moments of acting jerkish and conceited to each other for the sake of delivering the moral of the episode.

Sarah Whitney

Voiced by: Dana Donlan

A girl from a rich family and the central character of the show, who mostly prefers friends over wealth. She is close with Molly, Bailey and Alma. Her horse is an Arabian mare named Scarlet.

• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brawn to Molly's Beauty and Alma's Brains.
• Color-Coded Characters: Red.
• Determinator: Deconstructed and then Reconstructed in "The Can-Do Kid". Sarah's absolute determination to master lateral dressage results in her overworking Scarlet passed the point of healthy. Predictably, Scarlet sprains her leg. Overcome with guilt, Sarah swears off the lateral dressage much to Scarlett's chagrin. However, when Sarah is forced to perform it to save her friends and succeeds, she learns that determination is a necessary trait in learning new dressage moves, but it must be taken slowly.
• Face Your Fears: When she was little, she was so afraid of a neighbor's dog that she walked the long way to school to avoid walking by the dog resulting in her always being late. However, the threats from the school forced her to face her fears which she overcame.
• Frame-Up: In "The Big Parade", she is accused of stealing shiny objects and had to clear her name.
• The Hero: She's the main human lead.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has light blonde hair which shows she has a love of horses and enjoys making friends.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Her light blue eyes represent her innocence and selfless personality.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: The sweetest girl on the show, and she used to own a cat named Mosey.

• Only Sane Woman: Generally lacks a lot of the negative traits her friends have and often acts as the Straight Man of the episode.
• Red Is Heroic: Wears red as part of her theme color.

• Spoiled Sweet: She's rich like Chloe and Zoey, but she's much nicer and more down-to-Earth than they are.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: She's the tender tomboy to Zoey and Chloe's foul femininity, because despite being rich, she prefers friends more than wealth.

Molly Washington

Voiced by: Aleya Smith

An African-American girl with a smart outlook. Her horse is an Appaloosa mare named Calypso.

• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Beauty to Sarah's Brawns and Alma's Brains.
• Color-Coded Characters: Fuchsia.
• Compressed Hair: She manages to fit her large bun under her riding helmet.

• The Fashionista: She sews clothes for herself and her friends. An esteemed fashion designer is impressed with her work when she fixes his impractical riding outfits.
• Face Your Fears: Develops a fear of jumping which she eventually overcomes.
• Improbable Hairstyle: A humongous and poofy bun.
• Odd Friendship: In "Molly and Chili", the titular characters initially don't get along, but they eventually do when Chili saves Molly from a stray bear.

• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The pink girl to Bailey's blue boy.
• Pink Means Feminine: Pink is her theme color.

Alma Rodriguez

Voiced by: Emily Hernandez

Born in Mexico, Alma immigrated to America at some time before the start of the series where her father runs Horseland. In addition to riding horses, she enjoys reading about them. Her horse is a pinto paint mare named Button.

• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brains to Sarah's Brawn and Molly's Beauty.
• Color-Coded Characters: Light green.

• Gratuitous Spanish: Often inserts Spanish words into her dialogue. Doubles as Verbal Tic.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Is jealous of Bailey because he has two dogs and she has none. Eventually she learns to get over it and agrees to be Cubby's co-owner.

• Phenotype Stereotype: Has medium brown skin, and is Hispanic.
• The Smart Guy: When she is not riding, she is always reading about horses which she often tells her friends horse trivia.

Bailey Handler

Voiced by: David Kalis

The male friend of the main cast, he enjoys animals and wildlife and likes joking around time to time. His horse is a Kiger mustang stallion named Aztec.

• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His brows are very thick and angular.
• Blue Is Heroic: Wears dark blue as his main color.
• Color-Coded Characters: Navy blue.
• Friend to All Living Things: He loves nature and animals.
• The One Guy: Serves as this in Sarah's main friendship circle along with Molly and Alma.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The blue boy to Molly's pink girl.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice became deeper in the final season, sounding almost like a teenager.

Chloe and Zoey Stilton

Chloe (l), Zoey (r)

Voiced by: Bianca Heyward (Chloe, Season 1-2); Caroline Iliff (Zoey; Chloe, Season 3)

Two sisters who come from a rich family who are often full of themselves time to time. Their horses are a Dutch warmblood stallion and mare duo named Chili and Pepper.

Tropes Applying to Both Girls

• Anti-Hero: Both serve as these due to having a rather stuck-up persona, but otherwise are on good terms with the others.
• Break the Haughty: In "Riding in Style", both Chloe and Zoey couldn't take the rather uncomfortable wardrobe to the point they beg to get out of them that instant.
• Color-Coded Characters: Lavender for Chloe, turquoise for Zoey.

• Everyone Has Standards: Alpha Bitches they may be, but even they were shocked at how Molly, Alma, and Bailey shunned Sarah simply for being rich in "You Can't Judge A Girl By Her Limo".

• The Fashionista: Both are shown to be this, such as grooming Alma for her date with Alexander in "First Love".

• Genki Girl: They tend to get a little overexcited at times, Sarah's arrival, for instance.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: They are spoiled, lazy, and constantly put their friends down for not being rich, but they will cheer their friends on at competitions and call out each other for going to far or their friends for acting like them. They even got Sarah some expensive birthday presents simply because she's their friend and love their horses and each other. Contrasts with the one-off Alpha Bitch Talia Bentley.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: They have the same mannerisms of Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan, even closely resembling them dead-on. To help, their last name is "Stilton", sound familiar?
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed in that they're not really villains, but they're racist to Nani, comparing her to Pocahontas. They're also rather ableist to Sarah's cousins Mary and Chase, who are respectively blind and dyslexic.
• Rich Bitch: They're affluent and snooty.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity: Both are the foul femininity to Sarah's tender tomboyishness. While often vain and self-centered, they do show their soft sides at times.
• Tsurime Eyes: Both have slanted and angular eye shapes which stand out from the others’ round eye shapes.
• Valley Girl: Both speak in Valley girl accents which is odd considering they live somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

Tropes Applying to Just Chloe

• All Love Is Unrequited: It's implied she has a thing for Bailey, but like the rest of the main girls, he's turned off by her snobbish attitude.
• Cool Big Sis: She's the oldest Stilton twin and serves as this to Zoey.
• Epic Fail: In “The Bluebird of Happiness”, she picks a bunch of flowers not knowing they’re poison oak. She ends up suffering from such throughout the episode.

• Maintain the Lie: Suffers this throughout “The Awful Truth”; she fibs that she can attempt a dangerous jump to impress Bailey and it spirals out of control.
• Pet the Dog: In "Molly and Chili", she generously allows Molly to ride Chili when she's sick while Calypso has a hot spot.
• Sick Episode: In "Molly and Chili", she catches the flu, and in "The Bluebird of Happiness", she succumbs to poison oak.

Tropes Applying to Just Zoey

• Animal Lover: Shows a huge degree of this in "The Bluebird of Happiness" when she nurses a bluebird back to health and grows attached to it.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has a thicker brow shape compared to the rest of the girls.

• Fiery Red Head: The redhead of the team who's self-centered and aloof.
• Heroic BSoD: Goes through a rather deep one in “Pepper’s Pain” after Pepper gets injured and she’s convinced she’ll be replaced.

Will Taggert

Voiced by: Vincent Michael

The owner of Horseland and the mentor of the main cast. His horse is a Palomino stallion named Jimber.

• Big Brother Mentor: He is the riding instructor and gives life advice to the riders. He's also Bailey's cousin.
• Color-Coded Characters: Black.
• Cowboy: He loves to listen to country music and is great at Western horse riding.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Wears black as his theme color, but is very nice.
• Determinator: Is determined to learn how to lasso. He eventually succeeds.

• Odd Name Out: The only main human character with a one-syllable name.

Nani Cloud

Voiced by: Rachael Ware

A later addition to the main cast, a Native American who is proud of her Cherokee heritage. Her horse is a palomino paint named Sunburst.

• Color-Coded Characters: Yellow.

Horses

Scarlet

Voiced by: Andrea Ware

Sarah's black Arabian mare.

• Dark Is Not Evil: She's black, but is really friendly.

• Team Mom: She acts as a leader to the other horses.

Calypso

Voiced by: Emily Hernandez

Molly's chestnut Appaloosa mare.

• Heart Symbol: Her symbol is a heart.
• Sick Episode: In "Molly and Chili", she gets a hot spot and is unable for Molly to ride her.

Button

Voiced by: Tiffany White-Welchen

Alma's black-and-white pinto mare.

Aztec

Voiced by: Ben Birkholtz

Bailey's brown Kiger mustang stallion.

• Be Care Ful What You Wish For: Wishes he was a wild horse. When he became one, he struggled to survive and returned to Horseland.

• Grass is Greener: Believes wild horses have the better life than tame horses only to realize he has a pretty good life.
• Green-Eyed Monster: His jealousy of the attention the foals Cream and Sugar are believing especially by Bailey drive them to runaway and nearly get killed. Fortunately Aztec realizes how wrong he was acting and helps save them in time.

Pepper

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Voiced by: Tifanie Christun

Zoey's Dutch warmblood mare.

• Dark Is Not Evil: She’s light grey, but is real friendly.
• Meaningful Name: She, like her brother, is named after a spice.

• Sick Episode: In “Pepper’s Pain”, she gets injured and Zoey fears she won’t be able to ride her again once she heals.
• Weight Woe: "Added Weight" has her go on a crash diet when she can't fit in her saddle and nearly passing out because of it.

Chili

Voiced by: Ben Beck

Chloe's Dutch warmblood stallion.

• Meaningful Name: He's named after a spicy substance, like his sister.

• The One Guy: Out of all horses, he's the only male horse owned by a female lead until Sunburst's arrival.

Other Animals

Shep

Voiced by: Jerry Longe

Shep is Baily's collie dog. He narrates each episode to teach a particular Aesop to Teeny or Angora. He is often seen with Teeny and Angora.

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: He frequently talks to the audience to introduce the main plot and to announce the episode's moral.

• Green-Eyed Monster: Becomes jealous of Cubby to the point Cubby runs away and gets nearly attacked by a mountain lion. Fortunately Shep wisens up and helps save him in time.

• Let Me Tell You a Story: Says this to Teeny and Angora upon recalling a past event relating to the episode's topic, and proceeds to tell the story.

• Narrator: Shep is the narrator of the series.

Angora

Voiced by: Marissa Shea

Angora is Horseland's Turkish Angora barn cat. However, she is too lazy to catch mice. She believes cats are superior to all animals. Despite this, she is often seen in the company of Teenie, whom she mercilessly teases, and Shep, whom she seems to have a little bit of respect for.

• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She will mercilessly tease Teeny for the crime of being a pig and show little empathy to the horses, but deep down she does care about Teeny and was horrified when Zoey plans to give a wild bluebird to her mother.

Guest characters

Mosey

Sarah's old barn cat, who has seen better days.

• Dead Hat Shot: All Sarah found of him after he disappeared while she was sleeping is his footprints gradually vanishing into the snow, presumably where he stopped before passing.
• Final Speech: Gives one to Shep, Teeny and Angora prior to leaving the barn in his final moments.
  Mosey: Take care, sweet girl. And you too, Shep, I'll sure miss you. Bye, you two.
• Never Say "Die": No one ever mentions the word "death" or any related meanings of it. The only thing coming close to such was when the doctor said Mosey "wouldn't make it" following his accident. And when Sarah couldn't find Mosey in the snowstorm when he disappeared while she was sleeping, she says he's "gone and not coming back".
• No Body Left Behind: In his final moments, he left the barn while Sarah was sleeping so she doesn't see the body when she awoke. The body was nowhere to be seen when he passed.
• Posthumous Character: Mosey was already dead before the show began; Shep recalls the winter where he passed on and Sarah tried to deal with it.

Talia Bentley

Alma's rival from Stanhope Stables.

• Alpha Bitch: Spoiled, rotten, and only caring about winning. She's about ten times worse than Zoey and Chloe.

• Second Place Is for Losers: Talia believes that if she places any position other than first, then she's not a winner.

Chase

Sarah's other cousin who is clumsy and dyslexic.

• Accidental Misnaming: Has had a habit of mistaking Chloe for Zoey and vice versa.
• The Klutz: Constantly gets into sorts of trouble such as misreading the instructions and bumping into others.